17 killed in US plane crash

August 27th, 2009 NTSB: Controller didn't warn plane in midair crashWASHINGTON — Federal safety officials say an air traffic controller should have warned the pilot of a small plane that collided with a helicopter over the Hudson River that there were other aircraft in his path. The accident earlier this month near New York City killed nine people.

July 23rd, 2009 Sheriff's office: 1 dead in WA small plane crashELMA, Wash. — The Grays Harbor County sheriff's office says the lone occupant of a small plane that crashed into power lines northwest of Elma is dead.

June 29th, 2009 2 dead, 1 hospitalized in Wash. small plane crashYAKIMA, Wash.

June 24th, 2009 Pilot killed in F-16 crash in Utah identifiedHILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — The military has identified the pilot of an F-16 who was killed in a crash at the Utah Test and Training Range in the state's west desert. The 388th Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base says Capt.

May 8th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Three military personnel were killed when the small plane in which they were travelling crashed in western Mexico, an official said. "There are three bodies.

March 6th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Two Pakistan Air Force pilots were killed Thursday when their Mushshak plane crashed in the eastern province of Punjab, the military said. The propeller-driven aircraft was on a routine flight when it went down near the garrison town of Rawalpindi, apparently because of a mechanical failure.

February 26th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - A Turkish Airlines plane with 135 people on board crashed Wednesday morning as it was approaching Amsterdam's Schiphol airport killing at least nine people, Dutch authorities said. The Boeing 737-800 plane, arriving from Istanbul crash-landed in a soggy field near the airport at 10.30 a.m.

February 21st, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Four people on board a small plane have been killed when the aircraft crashed in northern Mexico, EFE reported Thursday. The Cessna, which took off Wednesday morning from the Pacific port city of Mazatlan, ran off the runway while landing in an airport in Durango province, smashed into an wall and exploded, the state Attorney General's Office said.

February 19th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Four people on board a small plane have been killed when the aircraft crashed in northern Mexico, EFE reported Thursday. The Cessna, which took off Wednesday morning from the Pacific port city of Mazatlan, ran off the runway while landing in an airport in Durango province, smashed into an wall and exploded, the state Attorney General's Office said.

February 19th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Four people on board a small plane have been killed when the aircraft crashed in northern Mexico, EFE reported Thursday. The Cessna, which took off Wednesday morning from the Pacific port city of Mazatlan, ran off the runway while landing in an airport in Durango province, smashed into an wall and exploded, the state Attorney General's Office said.

February 19th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Four people on board a small plane have been killed when the aircraft crashed in northern Mexico, EFE reported Thursday. The Cessna, which took off Wednesday morning from the Pacific port city of Mazatlan, ran off the runway while landing in an airport in Durango province, smashed into an wall and exploded, the state Attorney General's Office said.

February 18th, 2009 BOGOTA - A Colombian military plane crashed Wednesday during a training mission in westcentral province of Caldas, killing all five people on board, officials said. The so-called 'ghost plane' - a retrofitted Douglas AC-47 - crashed in a rural area of the province and burst into flames upon impact, an air force spokesman said, EFE reported.

February 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - A woman who had lost her husband in the Sept 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) was among those killed in the late Thursday air crash in New York state, her sister said early Friday. 'We know that she was on that plane,' Sue Bourque was quoted by the Buffalo News as saying about her sister Beverly Eckert, who had been waiting at Buffalo airport to pick her sister up when the Continental Airlines plane crashed some 10 kilometres away.

February 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - A commercial airliner struck a house and burst into flames late Thursday outside Buffalo, New York, killing 49 people, officials said. The dead included 48 people on the plane and one person on the ground.

February 9th, 2009 SAN JUAN - A small aircraft with six people on board crashed into the Caribbean near the northern coast off Puerto Rico, EFE reported Tuesday. Three bodies and pieces of the plane were found floating in the sea during a search operation following the crash near the town of Quebradillas, authorities said.